We love the Fryeburg Fair, we look forward to it every year and we are never disappointed. We are not yet at a life stage where we are willing to tent in the back of the parking lot (Pelkey Family), but we did decide to give a hotel stay for 1 night another try so that we could enjoy the fair for at least 2 days... Yes, it really is that big. We were fortunate to have two days of beautiful fair weather and even got to meet up with the Pelkey's for a bit.
Monday is Woodsmen's Day and skillet throw day... I had never even considered entering the skillet toss, mostly because I had never tossed a skillet before, but when Hillary called and said, "You aren't mad that I signed you up for the skillet toss too, right?" I didn't have much of a choice. Hillary had only tossed a skillet one other time at the Blue Hill Fair a few years back, but her whole "collegiate school record setting track and field" thing put her at a distinct advantage... To make a long story short, Hillary threw a fair record breaking throw of 69.8 feet... really destroying the old record. The crowd went wild and we spent the rest of the day having random people coming up to Hillary congratulating her, telling her that was the best thing they had every seen, basically she had her own groupies... it was wild, Jim and Lauretta would have been proud! In the meantime Gabe was feeling a bit huffy that men weren't allowed to participate, so I expect him to lodge a formal complaint now that we are home;)
After that the fair was mostly uneventful. We had a great time hitting all of the usual spots and eating way too much fair food. The one advantage we have though, as a family of 6, is that no one ever gets to eat "too much" of any one food because it all gets divided... that really just means that we get to buy a little of everything;) Audrey was not super cooperative, again, sleeping away from home, so we will be taking only day trips for the next few months...
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